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| Re: I hate DNA magic. *SPOILERS* | |
| Posted By: thebruce0 <g.may@thebruce.net> | Date: 11/7/12 6:07 p.m. |
In Response To: I hate DNA magic. *SPOILERS* (scarab) : Yeah whatever that means. Given that evolution has no purpose or goal or end: : what on earth would accelerating it do? Its a meaningless expression. : As a geneticist she should know the difference between evolution and genetic
: Maybe she is using the non-scientific sense: as an unfolding change. But even
That really bugged me as well. Her implication is that evolution is by definition an upward, guided, improving genetic process (as opposed to entropic, random, mutational), or at least that she somehow knows that Human evolution is such a process -- When really all she did was perform a genetic alteration (though that it's an alteration native to our human species). In essence, she's implying either she engineered the human genome, or that she knows human genetic 'destiny', as it were, and simply sped up its pre-planned progress... even though technically "evolutionary" changes occur across generations, not within a single living entity... (if the latter, then she really 'gave' him a special ability, otherwise it's not evolution since she'd simply have unlocked the already-existing ability-whatever-thing in his genetics) Alas, methinks her wording for what she did to him could have been better, could have made more sense.
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